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Turkey is a country that offers a great variety of cultural and historical sites from different periods, but few are quite as intriguing or bizarre as the massive statues on top of remote and uninviting Mount Nemrut. In the 1st century BC, the king Antiochus I went through a lot of

If you’ve ever been to Egypt, you might have been a little bit overwhelmed by the history. I once fell asleep in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, until an outrageously attractive Egyptian girl woke me up to see if I was still breathing. There’s nothing more exciting to that story, but the point is